make up, n.All

Make-up (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never been more systematically and knowingly erotic than among Caduveo women, whose face paintings are a pictorial surgery grafting art on to the human body.

Make-up (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a rubber-camp dance was meant not to fake beauty but to fake health: under the rouge and powder the women were hiding syphilis, tuberculosis and malaria.